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Joohee Park edited the blog post the line, in light of Steve Prince’s Art & the Baby Dolls in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 months ago

Prior to this class, my perception of the line was focused on that in poetry, having taken three poetry workshops almost consecutively within the past two years. What this class offered was a broadening of that […]
Joohee Park edited the blog post Segregation & Progress in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

LaKisha Michelle Simmons writes in “Geographies of Pain, Geographies of Pleasure” that “segregation was tied to progress, not simply to tradition” (Walking Raddy 32). When the Supreme Court legalized segregat […]
Joohee Park edited the blog post the line & consciousness in the group American Studies: 7 years, 7 months ago

I found myself thinking both figuratively and literally about the line last class.

In one of my sociology classes last semester, my professor mentioned race consciousness and progress, specifically Obama’s s […]
Joohee Park edited the blog post trouble blogging in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 5 months ago

I have a fear of public spaces and get anxious at the thought of having my writing or voice floating around. This public forum is no exception. But I figured I could use my fear in a productive way because I do have to post.

I think my preference to show my work cold (as in, let me whip out my laptop in this café if my only other option i…[Read more]
Joohee Park edited the blog post her swansong in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 5 months ago

I’ve been using the words “poem”/“poetry” and “song” quite often in my poems this semester, and I’m not sure if they’re warranted, but I’ve just been thinking about what a poem is, what poetry is, their relation […]
Joohee Park edited the blog post sound as a writer in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 7 months ago

My relationship to sound as a human being informs my relationship to sound as a writer. I’m sensitive to auditory stimuli over which I have no control, so I often listen to music, which is a source of inspiration in the emotions/moods it evokes.

In terms of sound on the page, I tend to shy away from considering rhythm and meter, probably…[Read more]
Joohee Park edited the blog post tension between temperament & the line in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

I love the line—the long line, the short line, the drawn line, the stretch that Martha Rhodes longs for. The lineation from the capitalization of the first letter to the punctuating period. The formality and rigidity of the line, hints at the structures of institutionalized learning, as well as its flexibility, uncertainty, and p…[Read more]

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